The Managing Director, of Nigerian Railway Company (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, has introduced that every one normal gauge rail traces within the nation will start six practice journeys in 2024.
Okhiria introduced this throughout an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Monday.
- “We’re going to enhance the variety of practice journeys to 6 on Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe and Abuja-Kaduna, which implies the journeys can be 3 times to and 3 times fro, making six journeys in a day.
- “The journeys will begin earlier than the second quarter of 2024. Proper now, they’re working 4 journeys — two up and two down throughout the board,” Okhiria defined.
The NRC boss additional acknowledged that what has been limiting the company from recording six journeys every day throughout the board is the safety scenario within the nation that prevented trains from working at nighttime.
- “What’s limiting us is the evening operations, which isn’t how practice ought to function. The practice is supposed to function always. Folks might wish to journey within the night, however due to the safety scenario in to the nation, we restrict ourselves to daytime,” he stated.
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The NRC boss additional revealed that the company intends to deliver again passenger and freight trains from Port-Harcourt to Aba, Lagos to Kano and Kaduna due to the dry ports.
Based on him, Dala Dry Port had been asking NRC to come back up and produce cargo to them, whereas Funtua and Kaduna Dry Ports had additionally proven curiosity in freight haulage.
Okhiria additionally disclosed that the company would start the Port-Harcourt-Aba, Lagos to Kano practice service for passengers and freight within the first quarter of 2024.
Recall that Nairametrics not too long ago reported that Okhiria disclosed that there’s an ongoing undertaking involving the laying of tracks from Port-Harcourt to Maiduguri, of which he assured that the tracks between Port-Harcourt and Aba could be prepared in days.
Moreover, the NRC boss revealed that the company confronted vandalism points at a number of rail traces within the nation, such because the Warri-Itakpe line, during which the vandalised clips have been mounted two weeks after the incident befell.
Okhiria maintained that when the rail traces throughout the nation turn out to be totally operational, it could be tough for the practice tracks to be vandalised when it was occupied.
He additionally famous that as quickly as freight rail traces throughout the nation start working around the clock, the worth of commodities would drastically cut back.
